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Dispatches from Lewes: Joanna Yarrow
Isabel Allen2024-02-20T11:43:08+00:00Joanna Yarrow talks to Architecture Today about getting planning consent for the 685-home Phoenix Project, and the challenges involved in delivering the biggest timber-structure neighbourhood in the UK.
ÂSchool of Specification – Specifying healthy materials
Isabel Allen2024-04-16T13:44:32+01:00HLW has produced a learning module on specifying healthy materials for School of Specification. Senior designer Alison Grant explains the dangers of unhealthy materials and the role that architects can play in improving the supply chain.
Dispatches: Daniel Libeskind
Isabel Allen2024-02-14T09:48:48+00:00Daniel Libeskind talks to Architecture Today, expanding on his design approach for the Maggie's Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in north London and the influence of the late Charles Jencks.
Dispatches: Chris Williamson
Isabel Allen2024-02-12T11:58:11+00:00AT chats to... Chris Williamson – RIBA presidential candidate and the most optimistic man in architecture – about writing plays, public service and channelling his inner Madmen.
ÂDispatches from UK Architects Declare: Anna Lisa McSweeney
Isabel Allen2024-03-21T10:28:31+00:00Anna Lisa McSweeney talks to Architecture Today about educating politicians, the Regenerative Architecture Index and why every practice has a part to play.
ÂDispatches from Madrid: Norman Foster
Isabel Allen2024-02-06T15:34:18+00:00Norman Foster talks to Architecture Today about his mission to educate a new generation of urban innovators and city leaders.
ÂSchool of Specification – Steve Webb on stone
Isabel Allen2024-04-16T13:44:24+01:00Steve Webb of Webb Yates Engineers has produced a learning module on stone for School of Specification. Here, he explains how the potato/tomato line provides a clue as to how stone construction might be developed in the UK.
Looking back on 2023
Isabel Allen2024-01-04T16:21:38+00:00As we kick off 2024, Architecture Today editor Isabel Allen reflects on the highlights of 2023 and looks forward to the year ahead.
Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare launch Regenerative Architecture Index
Isabel Allen2023-12-22T15:41:53+00:00Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare have teamed up to launch the world's first Regenerative Architecture Index, as a means of benchmarking architects on regenerative projects, policies, working practices and actions.
Against the odds: Tower Hamlets Town Hall
Isabel Allen2024-03-01T11:41:40+00:00AHMM’s deft reinvention marries the gravitas of historic civic architecture with an upbeat modernity that speaks of optimism and hope. If you ignore the empty bookshelves.
Towner Eastbourne
Isabel Allen2023-12-08T09:45:46+00:00Manalo & White's redesign gives a new lease of life to the Towner Eastbourne, designed by Rick Mather and opened in 2009. Â